Five stupid sayings (part 4)

In general I'm a big fan of the English language, but it does have it's quirks. For example, from time to time on the Charles Fudgemuffin blog I like to highlight silly English expressions, and here are a few more...

1) "He knows which side his bread is buttered."

Intelligence Test: Can you work out which side this bread is buttered?

This is a strange compliment which is used to mean, 'He is clever enough to understand what is best for his own self-interests.'  But I have to say, you don't exactly need to be a genius to tell which side your bread is buttered!

It's not that hard to work out.  You just look at the bread, you see which side the butter is on, then hey presto ... that's the side your bread is buttered.  To be blunt, if you couldn't work out which side your bread was buttered, you'd have to be a bit of an idiot!

10 cool Japanese words and expressions (part 2)

As I've pointed out several times before on the Charles Fudgemuffin blog, I'm a big fan of the Swedish language, but another language I think is pretty cool is Japanese.

As the 2020 Summer Olympics were originally scheduled to take place in Japan next week, that's therefore as good an excuse as any to feature anopther round-up of some of my favourite Japanese words and expressions.

"Bah! I'm too early! He's a not yet dead person."

1) Not yet...

One Japenese word which I find amusing is the word for 'widow'. The kanji symbols for widow literally translate as 'not yet dead person'.

I suppose that technically it's true, but I still can't help thinking it's an unusual way to describe a widow!

Emoji Quiz

Sadly, there are no emojis for fudge or muffin, so instead
here's what my emoji name would look like if I was called
Charles Chocolatecake rather than Charles Fudgemuffin!

Believe it or not, July 17th is World Emoji Day, so to celebrate this week the Charles Fudgemuffin blog features an emoji quiz featuring four categories; movies, songs, super heroes, and books to round things off!

Take a look at the following emojis and see if you can figure out the correct answer represented by each set of emojis. If you need any help you can find the answers at the bottom of the page.

Category 1: Movies

Here's a clue: one of the following movies is a sequel! Most of the movies should be fairly obvious, but you may find one of these emoji clues a bit tricky.

1) 🐒🐒🐒🐒🐒🐒🐒🐒🐒🐒🐒🐒

2) 🔪👩🚿

Commas are important (part 2)

The importance of commas is a subject I've covered before on the Charles Fudgemuffin blog, but it seems that some people still aren't getting the message, so here are a few more examples which demonstrate why commas are important....

1) Divorce cake

Did they get this cake because they were breaking up with their partner, or moving to a new job?

"It's over, Chris. I'm leaving you."

I think it was supposed to, 'Sorry you are leaving, Chris."